The False Teaching of what happens at the Rapture.
I believe people have been taught through preaching, books, videos etc a wrong view of what happens at the Rapture.
This false teaching says that when people are caught away to meet the Lord others will see them rise in the air, and great devastation will happen. Planes will fall out of the sky as Christian pilots are taken away, plus cars and buses, trains etc will all crash because their drivers were believers and were caught away.
People are told that unbelievers will be shocked and horrified as they realise they have been `left behind.`
None of this is a true picture, I believe, of what will really happen at the rapture.
The Truth of what will happen at the Rapture.
Have you ever thought about this?
Not only that, but I've studied the Word about the resurrection and rapture, since they both occur at the same event.
The Bible teaches very clearly that there will be just one resurrection for the saved, and one for the unsaved.
Matt 22:30 - At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Singular.
Luke 14:14 - and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid
at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Count how many Jesus notes. I see "the resurrection". How do you get "waves" or "stages" or "series" from that?
Greek is singular.
Acts 24:15 - and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that
there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Count how many resurrections. Paul says "A resurrection". One for the saved and one for the unsaved.
The Greek is singular.
1 Cor 15:23 - But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. “when He comes”
is in the singular.
The thrust of ch 15 is all about the resurrection of believers. We know that Christ's resurrection is described as "first fruits" because He was the FIRST ONE to receive His resurrection body.
Acts 26:23 - that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”
This eliminates trying to use the people Jesus and His disciples raised from the dead plus all the ones who came out of their graves when Jesus was crucified. Jesus was the first one.
Rev 20-
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)
This is the first resurrection.
v.4 refers to believers who were martyred during the Tribulation. v.5 tells us plainly that they "came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years". And to top that off, that resurrection is described as the FIRST one. Since there is only 2, this one is for "those who belong to Him" from 1 Cor 15:23.
Finally, the Bible clearly includes the gathering (rapture) with the Second Advent.
2 Thess 2:1 - Concerning the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and
our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,
Red = Second Advent
Blue = 'rapture'
So, what happens at "the rapture"? Believers still alive when King Jesus returns at the Second Advent, will be "caught up" to be together with all the dead saints from heaven who will accompany King Jesus back to earth. All will receive their glorified bodies, and will then be part of the Millennial kingdom on earth. So no "raptured" believer will ever go up to heaven.
